If you work in tech in the UK, join a union.
Even if your employer is great now, things can change. The current general obsession with AI is a good reason to be aware of all of your rights.
Even as a lone member in a company you have access to valuable advice and support. 🤞 You may never need it, in which case your membership helps those that do.
UTAW are a bit more political / campaigining: https://utaw.tech/
Prospect a bit less: https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/
The ruling of the European Court of Justice yesterday is amazing news to non-binary people IMHO : The ruling clarifies that Member States must issue document matching the presented gender of citizens - it does at no place limit the definition of gender to male or female. Considering how barely any member state recognizes non-binary gender, this will be an amazing foundation to sue countries to provide them.
#CURIA case C-43/24.
"We will continue to warn of the risk the Greens pose", says man who lied his way to power. 🙄
His party's lies helped them lose the #byelection.
Quotation from Keir #Starmer's 27 February 2026 letter to MPs, at https://leftfootforward.org/2026/02/read-keir-starmers-letter-to-labour-mps-in-full-after-gorton-and-denton-by-election-defeat/ / https://archive.is/nKb0B
The so-called "#LabourParty" fought a very dirty campaign in #GortonAndDenton. They lost heavily, but they haven't cleaned up their act.
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.